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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. First Movers” didn’t understand customer problems or the product features that solved those problems (what we now call product-market fit). The result? Carpe Diem – Seize the Cash.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 Market Cap.